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What phone? That just sounds like you're abusing your port.
Not a phone, but a laptop - Lenovo S540 15IWL. I examined the motherboard today, and realized that the guy I gave to repair did the bare minimum by not buying a new jack, but instead using some lofty solder to complete the connection. I have not done any soldering myself, nor do I have a soldering iron yet, but I've purchased the jack port myself from an online store.
I got ya. It's usually not hard to do. A lot of manufacturers have a plastic housing that's part of the frame of the case to help reinforce the power port. I've seen the power cord break away on these before it messes up the laptop jack. Obviously, not every laptop is so diligent.
After repairing it, if there's room you can cover the area in hot glue and it will help. Hot glue is nice because while it gives a pretty good bit of reinforcement, it's still fairly easy to remove if you have to repair things yet again.
There's no plastic holder to unhook. It has to be soldered.
The hook-like wire thingy you see in the back - it broke off, and the reason for that is becaue that idiot lost screws for my device, so the unstable structure and the heavy charger port made it wiggle away and bend. And every time I sent it for repair, that idiot used a solder instead of replacing it.
Test a screw that goes into the hole he was supposed to use and make sure he didn't do it because that hole was just stripped out. I'd imagine you may be able to replace that board for pretty cheap, instead of just the port.
You can also buy a little box of various laptop screws for like $10 on amazon.